Design Leadership: Three Pedagogical Pairings for Performative Practice

Abstract

Who will lead in the much-needed awakening to the problem of the divide-and-conquer mentality that has strapped the construction industry to vast inefficiencies BOTH in the way buildings are conceived, designed, delivered AND how they perform? And in the barrage of contemporary claims for performance-based design – what is the fate of “Design”? This paper examines these questions with examples of substantial and emerging pedagogical initiatives that are critically founded and practically executed with a view toward a more integrated and better-designed future – of performative built environments and the practices that produce them.